The Libourne prosecutor’s office indicated that the mummified body of a septuagenarian, who had been dead for about three years, was found at the end of December by the city’s firefighters. The victim was discovered on December 31 in an apartment while the emergency services intervened to find “the origin of a water leak”.
The mummified body of a septuagenarian, dead for about three years, was found at the end of December by the firefighters of Libourne, near Bordeaux, we learned Thursday from the prosecution, confirming information from South West. The victim was discovered on December 31 in an apartment while the emergency services intervened to search for “the origin of a water leak”, specifies the Libourne prosecutor’s office.
An absence that went unnoticed
An investigation is opened to determine the identity of the victim and to know the circumstances of his death. The first elements indicate that she had been dead “for about three years”, the gendarmerie told AFP. “It is a person aged 74-75, possibly deceased in 2019, whose identity has yet to be confirmed. Everything suggests that it is indeed the tenant of the apartment, a person elderly reputed to be sick”, indicates the survey cited by BFM TV.
According to testimonies collected by the newspaper South West, the absence of the septuagenarian had not been noticed by the neighborhood. This news item illustrates the problem of isolation, while the city of Libourne encourages vulnerable people to make themselves known to the town hall to be contacted regularly.